Holy Waters
- 272 Seiten
- 10 Lesestunden
Tom Morton, keen motorcyclist, funeral celebrant and whisky aficionado, takes us on a journey around the globe, exploring the links between famous alcoholic spirits and spirituality.






Tom Morton, keen motorcyclist, funeral celebrant and whisky aficionado, takes us on a journey around the globe, exploring the links between famous alcoholic spirits and spirituality.
This volume documents British artist Roger Hiorns' (born 1975) largest show to date, at Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt and Galerie Rudolfinum. Hiorns' installations and sculptures generate and fill gaps between disparate between construction and destruction, theology and technology, temporariness and performance, authoritarian control and spontaneity.
A funeral celebrant's story about how celebrating death, and creating personalised space for grief, can enrich lives and give meaning to death.
Offering a comprehensive exploration of earth masonry, this book addresses significant gaps in knowledge by providing detailed insights into technical, design, and construction challenges. It serves as a factual resource for those interested in the intricacies of building with earth materials, enhancing understanding of this sustainable practice.
What's it really like to live on a remote island at the crossroads of the North Atlantic and the North Sea? To run the Last Bookshop in Scotland? To experience the eternal light of a Shetland summer and the deep darkness of winter, the fury of hurricanes in an ancient house a few feet from the ocean? Tom Morton's fascinating, funny, moving and acerbic memoir will take you to a place you may suddenly long to be. Even if it's just to browse the books. In Shetland. On the edge of the world...
Canadian curator Tom Morton is really the focus of this thought-provoking
The Dutch artist Erik van Lieshout works with video installations, paintings, and drawings. With his acute powers of observation van Lieshout analyses day-to-day reality in our current, confusing times. In a dizzying game of political correctness and incorrectness, he provides razor-sharp comments on sociocultural reality. This book is the artist's first comprehensive monograph, published on occasion of his exhibitions at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; the Kunsthaus, Zurich; and the Lenbachhaus, Munich.